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We Made It: Cameron Balloons
We Made It: Cameron Balloons
Business is ballooning for a Bristol company that trades in hot air
Sunday, 13 September 2015

The steady thrumming of needle through fabric: a seamstress at Cameron Balloons in BristolEmily Tyrrell
An air of busy calm greets me as I walk onto the top floor of Bristol’s Cameron Balloon factory. Considering this company is the largest manufacturer of hot air balloons in the world, my novice expectations of behemoth machinery raging back and forth in huge production lines are somewhat undone by the sight of six women sitting at industrial sewing machines, dotted around the farthest edges of the vast room, quietly stitching.
No cacophony of machinery, just the steady thrumming of needle through fabric, bobbins spinning, the occasional tut as unwieldy material is hefted further in from the huge mounds stretched out before each machinist. Read the rest of the article on the Bruichladdich website.
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Hey 'Hot Air', interesting
Hey 'Hot Air', interesting question. Do you not think that craftsmanship is an art form? In the way that sculputre and textiles are an art form? Anyone can make a vase, but only a true craftsman like Grayson Perry can make a vase like he makes a vase.
Hey, Helen, not really,
Dear Hot Air, Many thanks